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B. HAMBUJER.

BUTTON HOLE. STAY FOB. BOOTS AND SHOES.

No. 288,794. Patented Nov. 20, 1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EPHRAIM HAMBUJEB, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO D. P.FRANK AND JOHN KOCH, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON-HOLE STAY FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,794, dated November20, 1883.

I Application filed August .27, 1883 (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EPHRAIM HAMBUJER, of Detroit, in the county of Wayneand State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements inBnttonHole Stays forBoots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of thisspecification.

The nature of this invention relates to certain new and usefulimprovements in the manufacture of what are commonly denominatedbuttoned boots or shoes, and other articles wherein button-holes areliable to be torn out.

The invention consists in securing between the outer portion of thearticle and the lining thereof corrugated annealed wire, secured in suchmanner that one of the corrugations of the wire lies in front of thebutton-hole, to enable it to withstand the strain, the next corrugationin the opposite direction lying between two adjacent button-holes, asmore fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification,my invention is shown as applied to the front flap of a ladys buttonedshoe, in which A representsa series of button-holes, and B(shown indotted lines) represents the corrugated annealed wire secured betweenthe front and the lining of the article, so that one of the corrugationsis in front of and in close proximity to the outer end of thebuttonholes, the next corrugation pointing to the rear between suchbutton-holes, 3 5 so that the connecting portions between the front andrear corrugationslie alongside of the buttonholes. 4

The wire may be very small, so much so as not to make the article appearbadly, and is 0 secured between the fly and the lining by gumming, so asto give under the strain of the button-hook, while the flap issuificiently elastic with the sides of the button-holes, will be veryflexible, and thus overcome this difliculty, and at the same time helpto strengthen the but- 5 5 ton-holes on the sides as well as in front.

What I claim as my invention is- As a means of staying button-holes inboots and shoes, a corrugated wire arranged so as to extend up one side,along the front of and 60 down the other side of each button-hole, andsecured between the front and the lining by gumming, substantially asdescribed.

E. HAMBUJER.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, E. SOULLY.

